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Re: Random Restaurant

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I love this account. Seeing photos from restaurants around the world is such a wonderful glimpse into other cultures. It makes the world feel smaller and more intimate somehow.

For me this makes the world feel so much bigger! It lets me step out of my tiny world that I am familiar with and realize the vastness of the world.

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#14
My hobby is promoting random selection of things where other heuristics fail.

People cannot decide what to eat? Let's throw a dice, suddenly they know what they don't want to eat.

Your elections seem to bring only corrupt elites to power? Randomly select citizens to govern.

If random choice seems better than your current system of selection, why not just go for it?

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#15
post #14

My hobby is promoting random selection of things where other heuristics fail. People cannot decide what to eat? Let's throw a dice, suddenly they know what they don't want to eat. Your elections seem to bring only corrupt elites to power? Randomly select citizens to govern. If random choice seems better than your current system of selection, why not just go for it?

> Your elections seem to bring only corrupt elites to power? Randomly select citizens to govern.

I do really like the idea of a randomly selected "second house"

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post #14

My hobby is promoting random selection of things where other heuristics fail. People cannot decide what to eat? Let's throw a dice, suddenly they know what they don't want to eat. Your elections seem to bring only corrupt elites to power? Randomly select citizens to govern. If random choice seems better than your current system of selection, why not just go for it?

> Your elections seem to bring only corrupt elites to power? Randomly select citizens to govern.

I like this idea... just like jury are selected...

Re: Random Restaurant

#18
post #15
post #14

My hobby is promoting random selection of things where other heuristics fail. People cannot decide what to eat? Let's throw a dice, suddenly they know what they don't want to eat. Your elections seem to bring only corrupt elites to power? Randomly select citizens to govern. If random choice seems better than your current system of selection, why not just go for it?

> Your elections seem to bring only corrupt elites to power? Randomly select citizens to govern. I do really like the idea of a randomly selected "second house"

This is called sortition and would probably work okay. I’d prefer a system where we vote for every person who seems good enough and then randomly select from them.

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post #14

My hobby is promoting random selection of things where other heuristics fail. People cannot decide what to eat? Let's throw a dice, suddenly they know what they don't want to eat. Your elections seem to bring only corrupt elites to power? Randomly select citizens to govern. If random choice seems better than your current system of selection, why not just go for it?

Wilderness with randomness? Animals at each encounter flip a coin to decide who eats and who is eaten ?

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#20
post #3

I'm struck by how many of the pictures of food show (a) fried chicken and (b) fries. Props to the Somalian place that just has coffee and popcorn though!

One place only shows people. I guess it’s a humanitarian* place.

*If vegetarians eat vegetables what do humanitarians eat?

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